John Astin | Born 1930

It would be impossible to miss John Astin’s exceptional performance as Gomez Addams in the critically-acclaimed show The Addams Family, which first aired back in 1964. Due to popular demand, the actor reprised the same role in the television film entitled Halloween with the New Addams Family in 1977 and the animated series The Addams Family in 1992. Outside of the said role, he has received successful credits in movies like Evil Roy Slade, West Side Story, That Touch of Mink, Freaky Friday, and Teen Wolf Too, among others.

It is worth mentioning that Astin, as the son of a physicist, originally intended to be a mathematician and enrolled in Washington & Jefferson College. However, after realizing that he wanted to become an actor, he studied drama at Johns Hopkins University. A theater was erected under the actor’s name at Johns Hopkins University in honor of the gleaming legacy he made.